RELI 1710 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Rashidun, Christian Pilgrimage, Banu Najjar
12 Apr 2016
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There is no god by god and muhammad is his messenger : recognize muslims stereotypically, hijab or head scarf on women, beard and scarf on men. Canada: arab does not equal muslim, arabs can be jew, christian, muslim, zoroastrian, atheist, 10% of arabs are not muslim, arab is = language/geography. Origins of islam: abraham and sarah could not originally conceive, he is allowed to impregnate maid hagar and gives child ishmael, his son with sarah afterwards is isaac. Lose sight of ishmael in jew bible: muslim story continues, however, with ishmaelites develop in arabia. Two holy mountains, many sacred stones and pillars: political centre home of the quraysh tribe. This tribe was the owner of mecca area. They controlled everything that was there: economic trade routes and markets. During the now called month of ramadan (muhammad was 40) Here, angel gabriel appears and calls to him to be a prophet.
